Twelve months before Labor ministry can operate: Lawrence Springborg

Queensland will have to wait 12 months before Labor's new ministry develops the experience it needs to run its new mega-ministries, Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said on Monday.

Mr Springborg said the risk with mega-ministries was that new ministers became "inwardly focussed", they "micro-managed", and they developed a "siege mentality" toward the huge amount of paperwork involved in government.

LNP leader Lawrence Springborg says the party will discuss who will form the shadow ministry on Tuesday. Photo: Renee Melides

"Running government is running a $50 billion public business and I think this government will regret the reduction in portfolios," he said.

"You have to be able to manage your portfolios and the bigger and more unwieldy it gets – and the more unfamiliar you are – the more it consumes you."

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Mr Springborg painted some Labor ministers as inexperienced union organisers now in charge of big public businesses.

"You are union organiser last week, and you are now in charge of a multi-billion dollar public business."

"And I think that is going to be the Achilles heel of this government."

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's new 14-person cabinet – including eight women – was announced Sunday and was sworn in Monday by Queensland Governor Paul de Jersey.

It includes former Labor ministers Cameron Dick (Health), Kate Jones (Education), Stirling Hinchliffe (Minister Assisting the Premier) as well as Curtis Pitt (Treasurer) as well as Ms Palaszczuk.

It also includes newcomers Mark Bailey (Main Roads, Energy and Water Supply), Leanne Enoch (Housing and Public Works), Steven Miles (Environment and Heritage Protection), Coralee O'Rourke (Disability Services and North Queensland) and Shannon Fentiman (Communities and Multicultural Affairs).

Mr Springborg said he specifically questioned Labor's decision to shift ministers away from portfolios they were covering in Opposition.

"What you got here is a whole range of people who were not even in parliament, let alone with any parliamentary experience," Mr Springborg said.

"And even the ones who had parliamentary experience, are not now in the portfolios where they shadowed," he said.

Jo Ann Miller covered health in Opposition, but is Labor's new Police, Fire, Emergency and Corrective Services minister, while Labor's former police spokesman Bill Byrne is now Agriculture and Fisheries minister.

Mr Springborg said new Labor ministers would step into highly-functioning well-run ministries, completely different to the LNP when it assumed government in 2012.

"For example when Cameron Dick steps into his office in health today, he is not confronted with dysfunction, mess, the payroll debacle, fake Tahitian princes, 6500 people on the long-wait surgical list," he said.

"All those things have by and large been fixed.

"So they walk into highly functioning departments.

"Not even Labor could make a mess of health starting this far ahead."

Mr Springborg said the LNP would hold a party-room meeting on Tuesday, where he would discuss the LNP's shadow portfolios.